1UP: Kingdom Hears: Chain of Memories was something of an afterthought in that it wasn't originally conceived as part of the story's continuity. In hindsight, having gone through the development process of COM, would you say there was a side effect in developing that game that benefits KH2?
TN: There actually is one thing that came out of it. Well, there are actually many things, but one notable exception, a bigger one, was that we were able to make some new characters in Chain of Memories. So to continue them in KH2, we can have their existence be a little bit larger, and deeper. There are some episodes in KH2 for example that maybe wouldn't have existed if it weren't those newly introduced characters
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